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SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlink Internet Satellites from Cape Canaveral

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 26 2020, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-inconceivable-has-become-commonplace dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 more Starlink internet relay satellites on Saturday, boosting the total number launched to date to 895 as the company builds out a planned constellation of thousands designed to provide global high-speed broadband service.

Running two days late because of an on-board camera issue, the Falcon 9's twice-flown first stage thundered to life at 11:31 a.m. EDT, pushing the 229-foot-tall rocket away from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was the California rocket builder's 19th launch so far this year and its 15th Starlink flight.

[...] With Saturday's launch, SpaceX has put 895 Starlinks into orbit, 180 of them — more satellites than any other company owns — in less than three weeks.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday October 26 2020, @07:44PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday October 26 2020, @07:44PM (#1069023) Homepage
    Let me take your observation, and turn it into a criticism:

    Small teeny tiny satellites means more orbital debris crowding LEO in a few years - like it needed more. Also, more difficulties for astronomers who need a clear sky.

    I hope you don't consider my edit to have distorted your observation too much.
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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday October 26 2020, @08:34PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday October 26 2020, @08:34PM (#1069047) Journal

    The beauty of satellites in LEO, is that we aren't screwing up something that would take 100 years or more to de-orbit, if it would even de-orbit at all.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday October 26 2020, @11:09PM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday October 26 2020, @11:09PM (#1069113) Homepage
      The best thing about them is that there's something worse? You're taking whataboutism to meteoric depths!
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      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @12:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2020, @12:16PM (#1069251)

        Yeah, sure. Keep up your rich Euro whinging about how the poor people are blocking your view of the stars with their damn satellites.